A competition at the [[http://​game.itu.dk/cig2010/|Computational Intelligence in Games conference 2010]] where AI controlled bots battle against each other in the famous real-time strategy game Starcraft.

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The platform, API and software support is basically the same as for the

The competition will use StarCraft Brood War 1.16.1. You must possess a legal copy of the

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game.

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Bots for StarCraft can be developed using the [[http://​code.google.com/​p/​bwapi|Broodwar API]], which provides hooks into StarCraft and enables the development of custom ​AI for StarCraft. Interfaces in many

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languages are available to query the current state of the game and issue orders to units.

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* Instructions for setting up the environment are available [[http://​eis.ucsc.edu/​StarCraftBWAPI|here]].\\

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* An introduction to the Broodwar API is available [[http://​eis.ucsc.edu/​StarCraftUsingBWAPI|here]].\\

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* Instructions for building a bot that communicates with a remote process are available [[http://​eis.ucsc.edu/​StarCraftRemote|here]].\\

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* This is the [[http://​starcraftai.rabbitx86.net/​|Forum]] set up by Ben.